SCS News 2026

February 2026

A group of dignitaries accepts ceremonial scissors from a spotted, four-legged, yellow robot.
  • Announcements

CMU's Robotics Innovation Center Fuels Pittsburgh's New Economic Renaissance

Stacey Federoff
An aerial shot of a new building in the midst of a construction zone.
  • Announcements

Pennsylvania Invests in CMU Project to Advance Physical AI Innovation

Kelly Saavedra
Collaged portraits of Jeff Bigham, Laura Dabbish and Chris Harrison.
  • Awards

SCS Faculty Named to CHI Academy

Karen Harlan
A woman stands at a podium, speaking.
  • Awards

Cranor Receives 2026 ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

Michael Cunningham
Two young men kneel near the edge of a pool to launch a water robot, while two people in the back look on.
  • Research

Robotics Innovation Center Propels Research from Deep Sea to Space

Stacey Federoff
A robot arm helps a human put a shirt on.
  • Research

How CMU Built a World-Leading Robotics Ecosystem

Laura Snyder
The back of a man's upper body as he works at a laptop, the screen of which says 'Welcome, Naveen.'
  • Research

PeerCoPilot Uses AI To Support Community Mental Health Care

Marylee Williams
Portrait of Dana Scott.
  • Awards

Scott Awarded Barwise Prize

Adam Kohlhaas
A four-wheeled all-terrain vehicle with the Field AI logo traverses a scrubby landscape with mountains in the distance.
  • Announcements

Robotics Innovation Center Secures FieldAI as Inaugural Corporate Tenant

University Communications and Marketing
Two men sit on a stage in front of a Carnegie Mellon University sign.
  • Announcements

Swartz Center Strengthens CMU’s Silicon Valley Connections at Lab to Market Summit

A human hand holds a cell phone that displays sleep data for the London area.
  • Announcements

Carnegie Mellon, Sleep Cycle Will Explore Sleep Data To Detect Outbreaks

Aaron Aupperlee
Collaged portraits of Lorrie Cranor and Yuvraj Agarwal.
  • Awards

S3D Professors Win Foresight Institute's Norm Hardy Prize

Michael Cunningham
A man with reddish brown hair and a beard leans through an access window to adjust equipment in a lab.
  • Announcements

Kangas To Co-Lead Development of Automated Science Educational Guidelines

Aaron Aupperlee
Collaged portraits of Aayush Jain, Aditi Raghunathan and Jun-Yan Zhu.
  • Awards

SCS Faculty Named 2026 Sloan Research Fellows

Mallory Lindahl
Portrait of Alicia DeVrio against a red, black and white textile that she created.
  • SCS Life

HCII Ph.D. Candidate Weaves Sociotechnical Resistance at The Frame Gallery

Amelia De Leon
Portrait of Andreas Pfenning.
  • Research

CMU Researchers Rethink Chronic Pain

Caroline Sheedy and Sara Pecchia
A street in what appears to be a town on the decline.
  • Research

CREATE Lab Studies Effects of Steelmaking in the Mon Valley

Mallory Lindahl
Two women work on a laptop in front of a window.
  • SCS Life

CMU Libraries, NVIDIA Prototype the Future of Bioinformatics at Recent Hackathon

  • Awards

Jahanian Among National Academy of Engineering's Class of 2026

Portrait of Cole Christini, sitting in a chair in front of a window.
  • SCS Life

Christini Earns Krulcik Scholarship

Marylee Williams
Black and white portrait of Art Sanderson.
  • Announcements

Obituary: Arthur C. Sanderson Helped Found Robotics Institute

Matthew Wein
A split screen shot of two men in headphones.
  • SCS Life

HCII Launches AI and Design Podcast

Karen Harlan
Books on a metal shelf in a library.
  • Research

An AI Model for Scientists

Aaron Aupperlee
A diverse group of students and adults gathered outside a building in a formally posed shot.
  • Announcements

CMU Launches Security and Privacy Undergraduate Research Summer Scholars Program

Michael Cunningham
Portrait of Eunsuk Kang.
  • Awards

Kang Earns SIGSOFT Early Career Researcher Award

Adam Kohlhaas

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